What's cool about hot stars? Infrared observations of cataclysmic variables with the Spitzer Space Telescope
Abstract
Cataclysmic variables have been extensively observed at optical, ultraviolet, and Xray wavelengths, where their white dwarf primary stars and bright accretion disks dominate their emitted luminosity. Comparatively little is known about the infrared properties of cataclysmic variables. The assumption that infrared observations would reveal only the "uninteresting" secondary star has been shown to be false: recent infrared observations of cataclysmic variables have instead shown that cool dust in these interacting binaries is possibly the most important contributor to their spectral energy distributions at long wavelengths. We present recent results from infrared observations of the cataclysmic variable EF Eridani obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Additional Information
© 2008 American Institute of Physics. This research was carried out, in part, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, and was sponsored by NASA through the Spitzer Science Center and Michelson Science Center, NOAO, and via Director's Discretionary Time on the Spitzer Space Telescope awarded through the NASA/NOAO/SSC Observing Program for Teachers and Students. This work made use of data products from 2MASS, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and IPAC/Caltech, funded by NASA and the NSF.Attached Files
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20090709-131111948
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- NSF
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2009-07-28Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-08Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)
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- AIP Conference Proceedings
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- 1010